The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 1, 1902, Page 22

THE AN FRANCISCQO CALL, SUNDAY, JUXNE 1, 1902. prisonment in Calypso’s arms, thence to es of Hades, to the final triumps of the wanderer in his hardly Ithacan halls. The lyrics, from the de, are the weakest spot in the times there the dark myst red at the - | STEPHEN PHILLIPS ADDS TO ' HIS ACCOUNT WITH THE DRAMATIC CLASSIC, ““ULYSSES” fi BY GUISARD. - = i - i < 7 & | ; New vortic pRaMA. | | A T'll flit no more a phantom at your feasts, Discouraged and distarded and disdained. But some of Phillips’ noblest lines are | ] | | \ | | | also to be found in the drama. The char- “Pagla | acters, too, are drawn in in clear and | Herod” | deep line from Ulysses himself to his | faithful sw T Eumaeus, and :xltn-\ gether, po renaissance is at| hand. 'Let us pray. { o e s | The first scene of “Ulysses” opens on Pro- | Mount Olympus, where Pallas Athene is | pleadirig witn T from the speil of Cal to release Ulysses ypso Poseidon, who e has a kick coming—as Mr. Phillips al- profound | nogi” but mot quite says in_colloquial ma in Bng-| Olympian protests, and there is a tooth- tegard and-; rtent of the play as the long- il scene between the two. Zeus, red sort of a god, commands top quarreling, and after being 1eminded by Hermes and Aphrodite that | even the immortals have genlally strayed: Tis true that earthly women had their share n this large bosom’s universal care, at Dan: Leda, Leto all had place ¥ most broad, beneficent embrace. at we gods who on Olympus dwell, 1 sympathize too well. at Ulysses shall be freed, ; jon with: | | Mr. Tree's en- of the in which r his direc- me: Wit And decides ending t Gannymede! ah, from the first, | of this globe engendered thirst. ng succe: is not merely act shows the revels of | Kind—that, suitors of Penelope, in_Ulysscs’ reading Mr. ¢ at Ithaca, _with the des- te efforts of Penelope to put| p off the decision to marry one of them. | ends with a beautiful invocation of the | 1-wife to her absent lord. Scene ond shows Ulysses in the sea -cave | alypso, his ship beached, his' com- | »s scattered and himself a willing | slave to Calypso’s lude. To them comes | Hermes, and touching the hero with his | caduceus frees him from the sea-nymph's | witcheries, afterward nrderln% Calypso to | “‘waft him on the deep, if in his heart he | hurgers for nis home.” Ulysses, ireed | from the spell, remembers Ithaca, Penel- | ope, his kingdom, and turns suddenly cold to the enchantress’ wiles. Calypso pleads eloguently to know why he should be | content again to seek dangers unheard | of to win back only a mortal woman, to know what Ithaca can hold for him after Ogysgia. At last Ulysses replies in these =plendid lines: Then have the truth: T speak 2s a man speaks; Tcur out my heart like treasure at your feet. | | than “Paola is incomp: matter for telling dramatic con- chosen are the hero's The rn on ( two alypso’s isle and the trial in been woven with deft web of the Ithacan ng background for peculiarly taken many ith his text, de- some instances This odorous, amorous isle of violets, That leans ail leaves unto the glassy deep, With brooding music over noontide moss. And low dirge of the lily-swinging hee— Then stars like opening eyes on closing flowers, Palls on my heart. Ah, God! that I might see Gaunt Tthaca stand up out of the surge, Yon lashed and streaming rocks and sobbing crags, The screaming gull and the wild-flying clouds— To see far off the smoke of my own hearth, To emell far out the glebe of my own farms, Circean color. The | To spring alive upon her precipices, Ithaca are | And burl the singing spear info the air; pressed, new inei- | To scoop the mountain torrent in my hand, | And plunge into the midnight of her pines: To look into the eyes of her who bore ms, And clasp his knees who gat me in his joy, | Prove if my son be like my dream of him. We two hand-played and tossed each other words; Goddess and mortal we have met and kissed, | Now am I mad for silence and for tears, tural fashion and the interest of | For the earthly voice that breaks at sarthly are rather and more Phil- r lypso’s enchantment o precede the hero’s wanderings he Cgyglan sea nymph succeeded ce highly pictur- y dramatic and g Its scope is of the s kept wonderfully well in The situations occur in is wvery cleverly cumulativé. ills from the serio-comic prologue among the | The mortal hands that make and smooth the gods on Olymp through the suitors’ bed revels at the hero's willing |1 am a-hungered for that human breast, That bosom a sweet hive of memories— Trere, there to Jay my head before I dje, There, there to be, there only, there at last! Not on quite so high level, but of re- | snarkable beauty are the linez of Athene in the next act, that takes place in Hades. | Ulysses bas arrived at tlie gate of hell | and knows not that he has to sound its | horrors. He asks Athene where he is. | She replies: | Doth not the region even now | Strike to thy heart? These warning cypress trees, | This conscious umbrage cowering on the ground, | The creeping up of the slow, fearful foam; | Rocks rooted in the terror of some cry That rang in the beginning of the world; All rature frighti into barrenness. Lo, mortal, here the very gate of death And this no other than the gate of hell! Ulysses, with Hermes as guide, de- | scends into Hades, meeting Agamemnon | and other noble shades, all with words of | woe for him. Souls of suicides, of little children, of lovers unsatisfled throng about him and lastly his mother, wha as- sures him of Penelope's truth. Thus guerdoned, he fights back to the earth. The last scenes take place in Ithaca. at the swineherd’s hut, and in Ulysses' pal- | ace, and splendidly dramatic they are. Ulysses, stranded at last on Ithacan shores, in rags and asleep, is contended for for the last time by Athene and Poseldon. Ulysses knows hardly that he has at last reathed home and welcomes it in some lovely stanzas. He makes him- self known to Eumaeus, the swineherd, and to his son Telemaelius, plotting with his famous craft to master the army of suitors. Here Antinous, Ctesippus "and Eurymaelius, chief among the suitors, have thres admirably characteristic epeeches, answered in noble wise by Pe- nelope. The action throughout i pictur- esque and dramatic in the extreme and the act closes with the stage empty but for Penelope and Ulysses in each_other's arms, where one may, with Mr. Phillips, very properly leave them. creates perfect complexions and prompts the skin to per- form its highest functions; it imparts that fresh, healthful glow that so often disappears with youth; removes TAN, SUNBURN, PIMPLES, BLOTCHES, MUDDINESS, MOTH AND LIVER PATCHES Sold by druggists and eneral dealers at Sic a ottle, or direct from us, prepaid,” for Trial bottle and directions for l0c. E. B. HARRINGTON & CO. Los Angeles, Cal. | JOHN D, SFRECKELS, "THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. Propri¢tor. Address Eommumcatians to W. & LEAKE, Manager IS AR S IR Lo SO LR B AL AR el Bt boie s 2 JUNE 31,1902 Publication Office . .. Market and Third S. F. ~ N his Decoration day address at Arlington the President suggested a policy that will attract universal attention and the study of scholars in civics far into the future. He said: “The slowly learned and difficult art of self-government, an art which our people have taught themselves by the labor of a thousand years, cannot be grasped in a day by a people only just emerging from conditions of life which our ancestors left behind them in the dim years before history dawned. We believe that we can rapidly teach the people of the Philippine Islands not only how to enjoy but how to make good use of their freedom; and with their growing knhowl- edge their growth in seli-government shall keep steady pace: When they -have thus shown their capacity for real freedom by their power of seli-government, then, and not till then, will it be pos- sible to decide whether they are to exist independently of us, or be kait to us by ties of common friendship and interest.” This means an experiment never before entered upon by any people, and its results will supply a subject for long-sustained interest. As the President well says, we taught, ourselves self-government by 2 thousand years of labor. - Can it be taught by others? Up to these days it has never been taught to one people by another.. We have not taught our way of seif-government to the Indians or the negroes. To pre- serve self-government to our own race in thirteen States of this Union their people have re- garded it tc be necessary to take from the negro his ballot, which is the sole expression and in- strument of seli-government as we have taught it to ourselves by a thousand years of toil. That franchise which we learned by fighting for it was not taught us by others. No out- side force decided when we were fit to receive it. No power instructed us, or held us in check until it was decided that we were fit to be free. Continuing, the President said: “When that day will come it is not in human wisdom now to foretell. All that we can say with certainty is that it would be put back wn immeasurable dis- tance if we should yield to the councils of :nmanly weakness and turn loose the islands to see our victorious foes butcher with revolting cruelty our betrayved friends, and shed the blood of the most humane, the most enlightened, the most peaceful, the wisest and best cf their own number.” But that is just what we, who are now seli-governing, underwent for a thousand years. Church and state combined against self-government and slew the world’s wisest and best.as mar- tyrs to liberty. It was only when man learned that such should be heard, and not murdered, that he entered into the alphabet of seli-government. The task which the President believes we have undertaken is that of forcing a hostile people to sit in a class and be taught seli-government. Those among them who desire this to be done are so few in number that withdrawal of our protec- tion means their immediate slaughter. Truly, human wisdom cannot foretell the end of such a task. The Greeks taught themselves self-government, but they never imparted it to others. The Romans enjoyed it for a time, but lost it by undertaking dominion of conquered people to whom they could not impart it. England has never succeeded in teaching it to other races in any part of her extensive empire. We have not taught it to other races in contact with us. Can we teach it to such a mixture of races so far away? Careful readers of the President’s speech will find in it the same form of statement that was in his message, He defers the final decision of what is to be done with the Philippines to an in- definite “future. After their lesson is learned, when we decide that their knowledge of self-gov- ernment is sufficient, after we do in their case what we never permitted any power to do in ours, then we are “to decide whether they are to exist independently of us.” Meantime we are to govern them and teach them. 2 The late Thomas F. Bayard while Embassador to Great Britain gave as a reason for our capacity for self-government that we “are a people so strong and self-willed as to be ungovern- able by any power but ourselves.” Heretofore in all history it has been proved that only such a people can be self-governing, and it has been believed that submission to government by others is evidence that there is no germ of self-government in those who submit. Our task is to prove the negative of these propositions in the Philippines. It is a great task and worthy of a great people. But heretofore none has succeeded in it, no matter how small and weak the objects of the experiment. EXTRAVAGANCE OR EHCONOMY. ECAUSE the public buildings bill and the river and harbor bill taken together provide for the expenditure of about $100,000,000 there has arisen through the length and breadth of the country a clamor against what is called the extravagance of Congress. In the clamor are many vaices, and they range in their utterances from fierce denun- ciations of boodle and jobbery to sarcastic references to “pork.” Their one point in common is that the appropriations made for internal improvements are wasteful of public money and are ap- plied in many cases where they are not needed. The clamor is the more notable becaiise there was nothing of that sort heard when Con- gress made appropriations for the army, the navy and the administration in the Philippines. Those appropriations for war were far in excess of those designed for the construction 9f buildings and the betterment of rivers and harbors. Senator Hoar estimates that in the last three years we have expended about $600,000,000 for the purpose of establishing empire in the Philippines. No one denounces that expenditure as a job, nor in discussing it makes taunting allusions to pork. .It is only when we are going to improve our own country that we become so interested in economy - as to grumble if tife Government devote a few thousand dollars to provide a postoffice building for Podunk or appropriate a sum of money to improve the waterways of Buncombe County. It may be conceded that much of the money to be expended for rivers and harbors and for public buildings has been unwisely distributed, though it would be difficult to get any wide agreement zpon the specific points in which the unwisdom is displayed. New York, Boston, Phila- delphia and Chicago complain that so much money is expended in small cities, but the small cities, with equal fervor, complain that large sums are expended at the great cities. If it were possible for the critics of Congress to make a thorough investigation of the various appropriations they might find that on the whole Congress had made the distribution about as well as it can be made. When Congress first rolled up appropriations to the sum of a billion dollars Tom Reed, who was then Speaker of the House, met the clamor of the time by the simple statement, “We have a billion dollar country.” Since that time the country has grown. We have money enough to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at the Filipinos, who not only are birds, but birds in the bush. It would seem, therefore, that we might have some to burn at home in the way of adorning our cities 2nd improving our rivers and harbors. If the expenditure of so much on distant islands be mot counted extravagance, surely what we make use of at home might be looked upon as economy. . THE BANKERS AND FOWLER'S BILL. HE California Bankers’ Association, in session at San Jose, has passed a resolution oppos- ing the Fowler bill for giving a more flexible currency by authorizing an emergency issue of national bank notes based upon authorized assets other than United States bonds. As this is the bill favored by the executive committee of the monetary conference and is favorably reported by the House Committee on Banking and Currenc¥, it becomes of great im- portance to know the objections to it which induced its disfavor by our bankers, and whether that disfavor is shared generally by the bankers of the country. The discussion of the subject at San Jose is not yet made public, but doubtless will be. The executive committee of the monetary conference and the Banking and Currency Committee have regarded the measure as a necessary reform in our national banking system, and a means of more evenly distributing the loan fund of the country, which now has a tendency to congest in the financial centers, making money cheap there, while it is dear in other parts of the country, This condition has been artfully used to sustain arguments on the volume of currency, when the difficulty has been in distribution and not in volume. Of coutse such flexibility must not be secured at the expense of safety, and the Fowler bill is intended to make the issue on other assets as safe as that based on United States bonds. If this cannot be done, no such bill should pass. The Call will gladly assist to a right understanding of the measure and holds an impartial position for that purpose. ) ; Tt is not every zealous reformer who can recognize reform when he sees it. Here is Dr. Parkhurst, for example, rising up after five months of Mayor Low's reform administration in New York City 2nd declaring, “The demoralization of the police is worse than it was under Tammany.” ’ again. i ‘| _‘Mrs. Robinson Riley s certainly more ARRAY OF PRESENTS MAKES EVERY BRIDE SEEM DEARER THAN THOSE BEFORE HER BY SALLIE SHARP. F we are to judge a bride’'s popularity by the numben of presents she re ceives then that of the last will seem greater than was enjoyed by thoss who went to the altar before her. Every time a roomful of wedding x\ftvi is displayed we wonder where they all came from and if there are any left. Then we marvel at how dear the girl is, to be so generously remembered. At the time of the Huntington-Perkins wedding a Wells-Fargo man alone called seven times a day to_deliver parcels, to say nothing of the drivers from the stores. Then to make matters more complicated the man behind the counter at the leading store of its kind in this city makes a practice of telling us that that particular bride is recelving a larger array of pres- ents than any in the history of the house. This, too, makes every bride seem dearer than the last. Miss_Alice Gardner certainly has much | to be happy about, as she received sucn | | loads of pretty things. There are many | handsome piecés of cut glass, china, sil-| | ver and bric-a-brac. Ex-Senator Preston, the groom’s father, gave the bride a check U SEa for a new sealskin, which she will doubt- jfim-‘ less lose no time in ordering as soon as she returns from the wedding trip. Her : L = | own parents have given a handsome set | of furniture. The groom's gift was a dia- i mond sunburst. All this for a girl who is still in her teens and has only recently finished at school. Miss Gardner was to ACTOR, WHO WAS HERE have made her formal debut in society RECENTLY. last_winter, but by the time her gowns 2 . were finished she had become engaged to | | | Dr. Preston and decided soclety could not | % —alp i sti y €0. D e e A e renine® 70" | pale blue chiffon creations she graces so The “going away’ gown was a sen- | frequently. At San Mateo last week she sible affair of brown etamine over taffeta. | donned a black broadcloth suit guite plain The entlre gown was of horizontal folds. | J2¥e gg;npizhtsr(matg“ u"rfff‘dfi'iy’afl‘fii The flounce at the bottom of the skirt| Jhifewaist. Mrs. Riley wore with this cos- was trimmed with_ stitched straps. The collar was finished with a bit. of light | tume a hat of coarse black straw with a blue piping, embroidered with beads. Over this gown was worn a long coat of black moire silk, with broad reveres and col- lar trimmed with ecru'lace. The hat was | of white straw, faced with black. The broad brim was bent up on the left side with a large black quill. The hat was draped with a black chiffon scarf, the edhges of which were embroidered with white, One of the most striking gowns in the charming girl's trousseau was one sha wore at the dinner given for the bridal party on Friday evening. It was of pale blue crepe de chine appliqued in large flowers cut out of creton and embroidered in red tones. The flowers and leaves were laced on the front of the bodice and at ntervals on the skirt. A twist of leaf green, pink and blue velvet outlined the top of the collar. The bride is especially charming in her new lavender silk poplin over yellow taf- feta and appliqued with pale yellow. There is a vest of rich renaissance lace and a jabot of black velvet ribbon at the neck to give it .char'ncte_r. Miss Flood has made another heart glad with her generosity. She has a quiet, sen- sible way of going about her charitable work, trying to keep it a secret, but things | will leak out once in a while.” This time | it is a generous cash wedding present to | the daughter of a man who was for vears 1in the service of the family. Miss Flood feels very kindly toward this employe and also his wife, who willingly waited upon Miss Flood in a long illness, al- though not under the slightest ob- ligation to do so. Consequently, to express her gratitude, Miss Flood bought a lot on Jones street and thereon erected two flats at a cost of $20,000, furnisiged a home for the couple and handed over a deed for everything, 50 that Mr. and Mrs. — have a home a< long as they live and rent the other flat for $40 a month. I understand that the new home was completely equipped, hav- ing linen enough for a score of years Some handsome vieces of furniture were brought from Miss Flood’s Menlo Park residence, which she sold because of its ainful memories. Everything else was rand new when the counle were invited to take possession. Now that their daugh- ter is going te be married Miss Flood re- members her handsomely. I believe Mrs. Jim Flood made a similar present, so the bride-elect will be made twice giad and more to be envied than a girl born with i; xkold spoon in her mouth but with no uck. 5 DAUGHTER OF A FAMOUS | broad brim rolled away from the face and trimmed on the underside. Black is particularly becoming to Mrs. Riley's striking blonde beauty. ———— Cal. glaer fruit 50c per b at Townsend'a® —_———— Prures stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.® ————— i i Townsend's California glace fruit, 5o & pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bask- ets. A nice present for, Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. * —————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Call- fornia street. 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Her foes insist that A 3 while a charming personality may cover furnishing entire houses, a multitude of limitations, she wiil never be killed for a beauty. However. her friends insist that she really says things, and therein lies the charm. John Drew and his daughter are friends of the Tobins. Mrs. Eleanor Martin there- fore took up Miss Drew, giving that de- lightfully informal little tea for her. Miss Drew was charming in a light summer gown of crosswise folds, gradu- ated In width, the skirt having a similar flounce, while the bodice had insertions of rich Cluny lace. Mrs. Eleanor Martin is looking forward to the return of Mr.' and Mrs. Martin_ from Europe this week. She is and his wife, while devoted to her so they are devoted fo her, and it will be 0 see. them together flats and hoteis and can save you money. Liberal credit and free delivery within 100 miles, T. 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